2019 SCORING AND JUDGING 1. HOW TEAMS AND MACHINES ARE EVALUATED

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1 1. HOW TEAMS AND MACHINES ARE EVALUATED Teams and machines are evaluated by two distinct sets of contest officials: Referees and Judges. REFEREES are contest organizers, contest veterans, teachers, or engineers who fully understand the contest rules. What they do: Referees use specific criteria to quantitatively evaluate your machine and team requirements. Referees will score your machine at specified assigned times. At this assigned time, the team will introduce their machine, complete run #1, reset, and then complete run #2. The referees will evaluate the team & machine on the items found on the sample Referee Form in the SCORING AND JUDGING SECTION. Evaluation of the team & machine on the items found on the sample Referee Form will be done exclusively by the Referees. JUDGES are industry engineers, sponsors, celebrities/local personalities, and contest veterans who teams should work to impress based on their team spirit, communication, and the fun and playful elements of their machine. What they do: Judges will walk the floor and pods freely while teams run their machine continuously for the audience and referees. The team s job is to demonstrate to the Judges the items found on the judging form. The Judges use their personal judgement and point of view to evaluate your team and machine in the three judging categories. These categories and their explanations can be found on the Judging Form, in the SCORING AND JUDGING SECTION. Scores in the following categories will be completed exclusively by the Judges: n PROFESSOR BUTTS CREATIVE SPARK CATEGORY (THEME) 20% of your score will be based on the theme that you ve created for your machine. Your introduction which sets the stage for the narrative of your machine is also considered. Another variable upon which you will be judged is your clever use of recognizable everyday objects in the transference of energy in your machine. If this is confusing, look at a Rube Goldberg cartoon... he used household items - not marble runs or domino runs - to create the chain reactions in his inventions. n RUBE GOLDBERG SPIRIT OF HILARIOUS INVENTION CATEGORY (HUMOR) 20% of your score will be based on how funny your machine is. How do you make a chain reaction funny? Read some of Rube Goldberg s cartoons, and see how he does it. Hopefully it will give you some good ideas for your machine. The goal is to make the judges laugh during the introduction and run of your machine. n HELPING HAND TEAMWORK CATEGORY (TEAMWORK) 20% of your score will be based on how well your team works together. Teams that communicate well, have a strong chemistry and a positive attitude during the competition including during the machine reset, fixing machine problems, and during the machine run will garner high marks. The teamwork score is also factored into the introduction to your machine and how well you as a team present your machine to the judges. The qualities RGMC values are creativity, humor and teamwork. The team that scores highest in the Creative Spark, Hilarious Invention and Teamwork categories is likely to be the First Place winner. 1 (continued on next page)

2 1. HOW TEAMS AND MACHINES ARE EVALUATED Overall contest placing and the percentage that refs and judges contribute to each: Division I and II: n 1st place (40% referees and 60% judges) n 2nd place (40% referees and 60% judges) n 3rd place (40% referees and 60% judges) Apprentice: n 100% judges For contest scoring and determination of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams, Contest Hosts MUST have access to Microsoft Excel during the contest. NOTE: The judging and referee forms shown on the following pages are primarily for reference and to illustrate the computations involved in scoring. Score tabulation is done digitally via an Excel spreadsheet. At the competition, judges and referees will make notes but actual scoring will be done electronically. 2

3 2. HOW THE JUDGING (POD) SYSTEM WORKS Teams will be assigned into pods of not more than 9 teams. Round rankings (1st - 9th) will be determined based on the referee and judge scores. For competitions with 9 or fewer teams, the top 3 ranked teams will be the top 3 winners of the competition. For competitions with teams, the top 3 ranked teams from each of the two pods will advance to a second round of judging, where a panel of judges will judge the round 2 teams again. The referee scores from round 1 will be used in round 2 final scoring. Then, the top 3 ranked teams in round 2 will be the top 3 winners of the competition. SAMPLE BRACKET and SCORING TIMING ROUND 1 FINAL ROUND WINNERS POD 1 Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6 Team 7 Team 8 Team 9 Top 3 Teams Time it takes to score Round 1 Time it takes to score Final Round POD 2 Team 10 Team 11 Team 12 Team 13 Team 14 Team 15 Team 16 Team 17 Team 18 Top 3 Teams Team 1 Team 4 Team 9 Team 11 Team 15 Team 18 Team 22 Team 23 Team 27 Team 4-1st Place Team 23-2nd Place Team 11-3rd Place POD 3 Team 19 Team 20 Team 21 Team 22 Team 23 Team 24 Team 25 Team 26 Team 27 Top 3 Teams Timing 1-3 hours 30 min hours 30 min (20 min/team) (10 min/team) 3

4 3. EXAMPLE: COMPLETED REFEREE FORM TEAM NAME: Purple Monster Eaters TEAM NUMBER: 221 The Referee must evaluate each machine in the order below. n Each machine will be observed by at least 2 referees, who will take notes on their own copies of this form. n After a team has completed its second run, referees must agree upon and submit a single form. 1. Machine Construction and Introduction INSTRUCTIONS: Examine the machine and verify the following metrics between the documentation of the machine and the actual machine. Write the verified values in the right-hand column. Metric Number of Steps in the machine, verified against the Step List A step in the machine is a transfer of energy from one action to another action. Identical transfers of energy in succession should be counted as 1 step. 2. Machine Introduction INSTRUCTIONS: Using a stopwatch, time the machine introduction. n If the Machine Introduction exceeds 3 minutes, stop the team. 3. Machine Runs INSTRUCTIONS: Referees must monitor and time (using a stopwatch) each machine run and note the steps that are touched, whether the task is completed, and count the number of out-of-bounds objects. After Run 1, each team has no more than 8 minutes to reset their machine before continuing with Run 2. This must be timed and enforced by the referees. Metric Run 1 Results Run 2 Results Touch Repeated Across Runs? (circle one) 1 st Touched Step Name Marble run Ball shooter Yes / No 2 nd Touched Step Name Marble run Yes / No 3 rd Touched Step Name Tower step Yes / No 4 th Touched Step Name Yes / No 5 th Touched Step Name Yes / No Total Number of Unique Touches (sum of above) Task Completed (circle one) Yes / No Yes / No Number of Out of Bounds Objects 0 1 Run Time (M:SS) 1:35 2:15 Other Rule Violations (describe) None None Verified Value Actual Machine Volume, verified against the Machine Volume Worksheet 250 ft 3 Other Rule Violations, verified against the Rulebook 25 None SAMPLE Referee 1 Name Referee 1 Signature Referee 2 Name Referee 2 Signature 4

5 4. EXAMPLE: REFEREE SCORE TABULATION TEAM NAME: Purple Monster Eaters TEAM NUMBER: 221 Machine Construction n If the total number of steps is less than the minimum (10 for Apprentice and Division I. 20 for Division II), then the machine is disqualified. Category Score Calculation Example Score Step Score Step Score = number of steps / 3 rounded down if the number of steps is less than or equal to 75 Step Score = 25-3 * the number of steps if the number of steps is greater than 75 = 8 points Machine Volume Penalty Other Rule Violations Penalty Machine Runs Machine Volume Penalty = 0 if the machine volume in ft 3 is less than or equal to 300 ft 3 Machine Volume Penalty = -1 * (machine volume in ft 3-300) if the machine volume in ft 3 is greater than 300 ft ft 3 < 300ft 3 à 0 points (no penalty) -5 * number of other rule violations None à 0 points (no penalty) SUBTOTAL - CONSTRUCTION Category Score Calculation Example Run 1 Score Reliability 15 3 * number of touched steps 15 3 * 1 = 12 points Repeatability 15 3 * number of touches not repeated across runs 8 points Example Run 2 Score 15 3 * 3 = 6 points 15 3 * 2 = 9 points Task Completion 15 points (yes) or 0 points (no) 15 (yes) 15 (yes) Out of Bounds Objects -5 * number of out of bounds objects -5 * 0 = 0 points (no penalty) Run Time Penalty -3 for every 5 seconds over 2 minutes 1:35 < 2:00! 0 points (no penalty) SAMPLE Other Rule Violations -5 * number of other rule violations None None -5 * 1 = -5 points (1 object) SUBTOTAL - RUNS 27 points 16 points 2:15 < 2:00! -3 * (0:15 / 0:05) = -9 points Category Subtotal - Construction Subtotal Run 1 Subtotal Run 2 Final Refereed Score Score 8 points 27 points 16 points 51 points (out of a possible 100 points) 5

6 5. SCORING EXPLANATION - PAGE 1 OF 3 (ACTUAL SCORING IS COMPLETED ELECTRONICALLY) TEAM NAME: Purple Monster Eaters TEAM NUMBER: 221 To determine an overall pod or contest ranking, your Contest Host will be inputting the Referee s score and Judge s rankings into an electronic form. n This form does the calculations to determine your team s overall pod and/or overall contest place. n The Referee s score, which is based off a 100-point scale, is worth 40% of your overall weighted rank. n Since the Judges have already ranked your team against the rest of your pod (or round), these ranks are inputted into the electronic form. Each Judged category is worth 20% of your overall rank. NOTE: The following explanation is to aid the understanding of how a team s overall contest place is determined. It is NOT meant to be used to determine overall contest place at the competition. An electronic form will be used for these calculations to prevent errors. PROCESS: Each team s final place will be determined by combining the Referee s team score, and each of the three Judged rankings. Each of these are then weighted to create an overall rank among the teams in your pod, and in the case of a final round, the team s place in the overall contest. For example, if your team placed in the final round: n 85 points based on the Referee s score sheet (40% total overall weight) n An average 3rd in the Rube Goldberg Creative Spark category ranking (20% total overall weight) n An average 1st in the Spirit of Rube Goldberg category ranking (20% total overall weight) n An average 4th in the Rube Goldberg Teamwork category ranking (20% total overall weight) By using your team s score from the Referee and the rank from the three judged categories, these values are inputted into the electronic scoresheet which determines your overall score from Teams are then ranked from highest score to lowest score, with the highest overall scoring being the First Place team, the second highest overall score being the Second Place team, and so on down the list. Thus, for our theoretical team, here is how an overall score tabulation would look: STEP 1: Since each pod can contain a maximum of 9 teams, we tabulate each average Judge ranking into a point total which is inverse to their rank. By using the example team above: EXAMPLE: The completed math for the Rube Goldberg Creative Spark category ranking is 9 - (3rd 1) = 7 THE MATH: PTS = 9 - (RANK - 1) Referee s Points Rube Goldberg Crea;ve Spark Rank Spirit of Rube Goldberg Rank Un-Rube Goldberg Teamwork Rank Your Team s Rank (RANK) N/A 3rd 1st 4th Points (PTS)

7 5. SCORING EXPLANATION - PAGE 2 OF 3 (ACTUAL SCORING IS COMPLETED ELECTRONICALLY) STEP 2: Each of the point totals are weighted according to the category weighting requirements. Again, we are using our Example Team: THE MATH: REF: WS = PTS x PCT Judge: WS = ((PTS/9)x100)xPCT Referee s Points Rube Goldberg Crea=ve Spark Rank Spirit of Rube Goldberg Rank Un-Rube Goldberg Teamwork Rank Points from Step 1 (PTS) Contest Weight % (PCT) 40% 20% 20% 20% Weighted Score (WS) EXAMPLE: The completed math for the Referee s Points is 85 points x.40 = 34 points The completed math for the Spirit of Rube Goldberg is ((9 / 9) x 100) x.20 = 20.0 points STEP 3: The Weighted Score Points are then added up for each team and ranked versus the other teams in their pod or Final Round. The highest point total is the First Place Team, second highest point total is 2 nd place, and on down the list. THE MATH: Total of all Weighted Scores Referee Weighted Score Rube Goldberg Crea;ve Spark Weighted Score Spirit of Rube Goldberg Weighted Score Un-Rube Goldberg Teamwork Weighted Score GRAND TOTAL Weighted Score (WS) EXAMPLE: 34 points points points points = 82.9 Total Points STEP 4 (NON-TIE): Your Grand Total Score is now ranked against the teams in your Pod. The top point earning team takes First Place, the second point earning team takes Second Place, and on down the list. PLACE TEAM GRAND TOTAL SCORE 1 st Everest School nd OUR EXAMPLE TEAM rd McKinley School th Kilimanjaro School th MaIerhorn School th Kosciuszko School th Mauna Kea School th Aconcagua School th Vinson School 72.6 EXAMPLE: Your team would have taken SECOND PLACE! 7

8 5. SCORING EXPLANATION - PAGE 3 OF 3 (ACTUAL SCORING IS COMPLETED ELECTRONICALLY) STEP 4 (TIE-BREAKER): Let s say for example, your team is tied for 2nd place with McKinley School with a Grand Total Score of The Contest Host & Scoresheet would use the following items to break the tie in the following order. 1. The team with the most steps 2. The machine with the fewest interventions across both scored runs 3. The longest machine run up to the maximum of 2:00 minutes 4. By Coin Flip Here is how our example team faired: Tie Breaking Criteria EXAMPLE SCHOOL McKinley School Break Tie? 1) Most Steps 30 Steps 30 Steps NO 2) Fewest Interven6ons 2 Total Interven6ons 2 Total Interven6ons NO 3) Longest Run 1:45 1:30 YES, EXAMPLE SCHOOL 4) Coin Flip NOT NEEDED EXAMPLE: Since your team had the longest run over McKinley School, you would have taken the place over McKinley. Trouser Fans - keep the dust away from your white trousers. 8